Courier's Corner

Hey! I'm Connor, and I'm a History and American Studies double major at UC Berkeley, with a concentration on the development of mass culture in America around the turn of the century. I'm a big ol' nerd, and I cosplay, voice act, sing, and DM for my lovely group of adventurers. Enjoy your Stay!

[clearwaterchild-deactivated2019]

Persona 5 soundtrack misleading

Opening theme titled “Wake Up Get Up Get Out There,” player spends half of game getting told to go to sleep

[kisu-no-hi]

Hey guys! 

I have some very special news for my Bioshock lovers out there:

Remember this? Well, prints of this drawing “Raffle 1902″ featuring the Luteces are now available. And that’s not all, you will be able find them on the official Irrational Games shop!

For the price of 23€, you will get a 18x24 high quality poster of our favorite scientists. 

♦HERE’S THE LINK TO THE SHOP♦

This project was created in order to celebrate the fandom and promote works made by fans. I’m delighted to be part of something so positive!

Happy Holidays, guys~!

[couriereight]

*strums guitar*

YOUR THESIS STATEMENTS ARE SUPPOSED TO ARGUE *SOMETHING.*  YOU WRITING “THIS MOVIE DEMONSTRATES X,Y,Z ISSUES” WITH A PROMPT THAT SAYS “SHOW HOW MOVIE DEMONSTRATES X,Y,Z ISSUES”” IS AS MENTALLY STIMULATING AS A TEN HOUR READ FROM THE PHONE BOOK.

[nahiri-deactivated20170217]

[agoodcartoon]

Guys who complain about the friendzone often don’t care about their female friends’ personal boundaries, forcing their female friends build more walls up. A good cartoon.

- submitted by Gene

[sciencevevo]

why is he tearing down a wall with an axe

[officialcyndilauper-deactivated]

i hate it when your put in the friendzone and made to tear down a wall

[ondoinganevildeedblues]

Mr. Gorbachev…tear down this friendzone

[cheaphalloweencostume]

how you gonna draw some shit that makes you look like Jack Nicholson in The Shining and still feel like you’re the victim

[bogleech]

I DON’T *CHOP* UNDERSTAND *CHOP* WHY *CHOP* YOU CAN’T *CHOP* JUST *CHOP* LET ME *CHOP* BONE YOU *CHOP* ON AN INDEFINITE *CHOP* EXCLUSIVE *CHOP* BASIS *CHOP* WHEN *CHOP* I’M *CHOP* SO *CHOP* NIIIIIIIIIIIICE *CHOP*

[dr-archeville]

“I’m going to wall you up now, Fortunato.”

“Ha ha, and then what? ;) ”

[magistrate-of-mediocrity]

“For the love of God, Montresor!” -Cask of Amontifriendzone, Edgar Allan Poe

[digitaldiscipline]

Incessantly, I heard a smacking, as of some entitled dipshit whacking, whacking on my chamber door.

Resignedly, I placed another layer, voicing a quiet, repeated prayer, “This dude thinks he’s a player, but I am not a point to score, he should fuck off and bother me no more.”

Quoth the friendzoned, “Fucking whore.”

- The Craven, by Edward Allen Bro

[agoodcartoon]

edgar allen bro

[roughhewnends]

“I call it a cooking show and I think you’re gonna like it.” (x)

[foodnetwork-fandom]

Originally posted by coldplaysparachutes

[couriereight]

This is just a friendly reminder that I love Jake English dearly and with all my heart

[thespacepenguins-blog]

help why won’t homestuck die already

link to all the pictures

[soli-bear-deactivated20171229]

LET ME LEAVE, DAMMIT.

[nesskain]

doodling.

[warlioness]

Tons of video game voice actors have gone on STRIKE

And stunt and motion capture actors too.

So, I won’t be picking up Andromeda until I hear this has resolved in favor of the guild.

[riseofthedreadwolf]

“Triple A video games often generate more revenue than blockbuster movies, yet these video game actors aren’t demanding millions of dollars per film - they just want their contracts to be fair.”

[antrashte-deactivated20190907]

voice actors can’t change their established contracts so i look forward to playing space-faring kiss boy 4 on day 1

[commandercullen]

It’s not about “not being able to play” up coming titles, such as ME Andromeda, it’s about showing support and solidarity for the voice actors and motion capture actors as they work towards a system which would provide more fair contracts for future work.

If WE as a gaming community, the people who are providing these companies with their revenue, were to say(and fucking DO), “we will not buy another game from you until you negotiate fairly with the actors,” it would be a huge wake up call to these publishers.

Everyone rolls their eyes when actors ask for contract negotiations, but this is their profession. It cannot be done professionally by just anybody. Actors deserve to be fairly compensated for their work.

[spinestalker-deactivated2025121]

good for them!

[dawntreadermg]

https://www.facebook.com/notes/jim-craig/a-message-from-steve-blum/10157540806655543

Steve Blum sums up the issues quite eloquently. I fully support them and hope they can get what they want.

[pearwaldorf]

Please read the union’s flyer (PDF) and FAQ on why they’re calling for a strike. It’s not just money, but personal health and safety that’s at risk. The conditions in which some voice actors are being asked to work is unconscionable, to the point where the union has requested an investigation by Cal/OSHA, the state workplace safety office. If you care about video games, and the people who make them come alive, you should be aware of why they’re striking.

[theubergrump]

Reblogging against to add the list of struck games that are currently in production limbo, because working on them at this point is strike breaking. I implore you to check this out and, at the very least, make sure you aren’t pre-ordering or promoting anything on the list.

[feralkwe-deactivated20210912]

yeah their list of demands are very reasonable and include a lot of things that make me go “wow how is that not already happening!?”. please support these voice actors. it’s not about your favorite games, it’s about safe and fair conditions as well as the basic right to know exactly what you are signing a contract to do.

[couriereight]

Yeah- in an interview with Keythe Farley, he revealed that throughout the entire YEAR AND A HALF he spent recording dialogue, he was never once told that he was working on Fallout 4. He played Kellogg, the main antagonist for the first third of the entire game.

[couriereight]

I have a job???

with 27.78 hourly????? and HEALTH BENEFITS??????? that accommodates for my readership??? I still can’t believe financial stability is in my life now, I’m really overwhelmed. Like I haven’t been insured for years. Now I can get a physical and a dentist’s check-up, and make sure nothing’s wrong health-wise. I’ll be able to start paying off my loans. And I’ll have that most elusive of all creatures: Experience. I can apply for other jobs in the future from a way firmer professional footing. It feels too good to be true, and I honestly have spent every second before signing the contract paranoid that, at some point, they’d announce that there was a mix-up and the offer was off the table.  But, the ink is dried, and I start tomorrow-- and I’ll have the kind of firm footing in life I’ve never had up until now.

[zafojones]

Circus Tree: Six individual sycamore trees were shaped, bent, and braided to form this.

[gwydtheunusual]

Actually pretty easy. Trees don’t reject tissue from other trees in the same family. You bend the tree to another tree when it is a sapling, scrape off the bark on both trees where they touch, add some damp sphagnum moss around them to keep everything slightly moist and bind them together.  Then wait a few years- The trees will have grown together.  You can use a similar technique to graft a lemon branch or a lime branch or even both- onto an orange tree and have one tree that has all three fruits. Frankentrees.

[beautifuloutlier]

As a biologist I can clearly state that plants are fucking weird and you should probably be slightly afraid of them.

On that note! At the university (UBC) located in town, the Agriculture students were told by their teacher that a tree flipped upside down would die. So they took an excavator and flipped the tree upside down. And it’s still growing. But the branches are now the roots, and the roots are now these super gnarly looking branches. Be afraid.

[reallifescomedyrelief]

But Vi, how can you mention that and NOT post a picture? D:

[source]

[sashiscorner]

I am both amazed and horrified of nature as we all should be

[jadedsoggy]

I love how trees are like “fuck it, I’ll deal” at literally everything. Forest fire? Cool, my seeds’ll finally grow. Upside down? Branches, suck, roots, leave. What’s this new branch? Eh, welcome to the tree buddy.

[rooksandravens]

I need to be more like tree

[azzandra]

I continue to fear and respect out arboreal overlords.

[fuckyeahwomenprotesting]

what kind of professor did these students have that they needed to prove him wrong so badly that they literally dug up a tree, flipped it and put it back in the ground?

[nicejewishguy]

Wtf is sephora

It sounds scary

[starcades]

isn’t that the guy with the long white hair from final fantasy

[venatus]

no your thinking of sephiroth, a sephora is an angel belonging to the highest order of angels

[punlich]

No you’re thinking of a Seraph

A sephora is a second year college or high school student

[one-eyed-pom]

No, you’re thinking of sophomore. A sephora is when you use your phone to take a picture of yourself.

[lethalneuroses]

no, you’re thinking of a selfie. a sephora is a calm breeze.

[waffle-sorter]

No, you’re thinking of a zephyr. A sephora is one of those Greek vases with the two handles and the pictures.

[leeshajoy]

You’re thinking of an amphora. Sephora is the web browser you have to use on iOS devices.

[animatedamerican]

You’re thinking of Safari.  Sephora is an informal term for the seven-week period of counting the days between Pesach and Shavuot in the Jewish calendar.

[hhertzof]

You’re thinking of Sefiras. Sephora is a bright blue gemstone best known for combining with Ruby to create Garnet and lead the Crystal Gems, training Pokemon, and/or assisting Steel to fight against time’s intrusions into our realm.

[rareandradiant-maiden]

No, you’re thinking of sapphire. Sephora is actually a part of a flower; it protects the flower in bud and supports the petals in bloom.

[jewishdragon]

No, you’re thinking of sepal. Sephora is the wife of Moses, who lead the Israelites people out of Egypt. 

[osheamobile]

No, you’re thinking of Tzipporah. Sephora was an ancient Greek poet who inspired a lot of lady-lovin’.

[jeremywhitley]

No, you’re thinking of Sappho.

Sephora is the youngest of the five Marx brothers.

[strontiumlullaby]

You’re thinking of Zeppo. Sephora is the method of communicating from ship to ship via flags.

[couriereight]

No, you’re thinking of Semaphore. Sephora is the shortened name of the Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot.

[everyframeapainting]

This is the first of two new videos today. Watch this one first.

Off the top of your head, could you sing the theme from Star Wars? How about James Bond? Or Harry Potter? But here’s the kicker: can you sing any theme from a Marvel film? Despite 13 films and 10 billion dollars at the box office, the Marvel Cinematic Universe lacks a distinctive musical identity or approach. So let’s try to answer the question: what is missing from Marvel music?

This video was made by Brian Satterwhite: https://twitter.com/bmsatter Taylor Ramos: https://twitter.com/glassesattached Tony Zhou: https://twitter.com/tonyszhou

[sennkestra]

to watch later

[couriereight]

After grading 50 or so papers from college students analyzing teenage trends and behaviors, I can come to one conclusion: Wow, they really hate teenagers a lot, don’t they

[bigsphinxofquartz]

I’m really glad there’s a prequel cereal so we can learn more about the lore

[couriereight]

For the day-crowd, here’s a cleaned-up version of my Love Like You cover from Steven Universe! Credit to Ian Harrison for the background track. (CourierEight)